KnowledgePresenter® X Professional Features

What are the system requirements?

• KnowledgePresenter® System Requirements

What's new in KnowledgePresenter® X Professional?

• Click here to see what features have been added or improved with the release of KnowledgePresenter® X Professional.
• Click here to see the details of the new iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch developer features.

What is included with KnowledgePresenter® X Professional?

• KnowledgePresenter® X Professional itself, the authoring solution, plus the following applications:
• KP iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch Developer Kit
• KP-Simulator™
• KP-DocumentaryMaker™
• KP-Learner Manager™ (standard edition)
• KP-Capture™
• 12 months subscription to KnowledgePresenter Q
• KP-ReviewIt

What are the Main Features?

Question Types.

• With KnowledgePresenter, you can create presentations, including highly interactive assessments, quizzes, and interactions of all types:
  • Multiple Choice
  • Automated Multiple Choice (including randomization, groups, subsets, customized feedback, time limits, etc)
  • Sequencing / Matching
  • Freeform Text Entry / Fill in the Blanks / Labelling
  • True / False
  • Drag and Drop / Matching
  • Drop Down Lists
  • Forced Text Entry
  • Hotspots
  • Targets
• Many more interaction types, movements, animations, filters, delays, transitions, and more are also available.
• All question types can be time limited, have a limited number of attempts, or appear randomly. Many question types can also have individual options randomly selected or ordered as well.

KP iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch Developer Kit.

• KnowledgePresenter know allows you to create mobile apps for all sorts of devices, with a range of features specifically aimed at the iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch Devices. For more information, see iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch Developer Documentation.

Modes.

• Run KnowledgePresenter® X Professional in timeline based, or step based mode - you choose depending on the type of lesson you are creating, or the paradigm you are most familiar with.

Compatibility.

• Material developed in KnowledgePresenter® X Professional will play on the industry standard browsers - including Internet Explorer 4 and above, Netscape Navigator 6 and above (including versions 7 and 8), Firefox, Mozilla, Opera 7, Safari, Avant, and others - on Macintosh, PC, UNIX and other platforms, such as the IPhone or IPOD Touch.
• As KnowledgePresenter® X Professional lessons, once exported, can run natively in a browser, it supports standard and accepted web technologies and formats. This includes JPG, PNG, and GIF for images, all versions of Windows Media Format for streaming graphics, as well as AVI, WAV, MPG, MP4 and MP3^* files (note that the use of some formats, like MP3, may require licensing from the appropriate copyright holders). If it runs in a browser, it will run in material developed by KnowledgePresenter® X Professional This also includes MP4**, QuickTime, Flash, Shockwave, Real, and other formats.
• Export in a variety of formats that allow content to run on almost all mobile web devices.
• Will run in and communicate with any SCORM compliant Learning Management System.
• KnowledgePresenter® X Professional will also import files from Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Macromedia Flash, Real, Shockwave, Windows Media Player, the clipboard, or standard text files.
• KnowledgePresenter® X Professional supports standard CSS stylesheets, as well the optional use of any HTML codes in text objects.
• KnowledgePresenter® X Professional links to standard Windows drivers to allow the capture of video and/or audio, and connection to TWAIN devices.
• Not only can you export to DHTML to play natively in a browser, you can also export the completed project to an EXE file, a WMV, FLV, XML, Microsoft Compiled Help, animated gif, Windows Vista Gadget, a series of bitmaps, a PowerPoint Presentation, Word Document, Standard Web Page, Pocket PC format, or an image - plus others
• Exports text to Microsoft Word document.
• Extensive and extended support available to take advantage of Internet Explorer features, while still maintaining seamless support for other browsers.
• Specific support for Windows Media Player and other media players for enhanced streaming.
• Take advantage of Windows Media Server's streaming capability if available.

Industry Standards

• Presentations can be exported as data aware SCOs (sharable Content Objects) that can communicate via SCORM™ (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) standards to any Learning Management System (LMS), such as Microsoft LRN Viewer. See:
  • SCORM Learning Object Test Results.
  • Manifest Test Results.
  • Package Interchange File Test Results.
• Designed with web accessibility guidelines in mind to allow compliance with other industry standards.
• Text in presentation can be exported to Microsoft Word for spell and grammar checking, and re-imported later. (Internal Spell Checkers and Thesaurus also available.

Flexible Delivery

• Over the Internet, Intranet, CD-ROM or DVD. No plugins required (however, when you include multimedia in Flash, QuickTime, Real, and/or Windows Formats, the appropriate plugin will be required by the user).
• Time Limit entire lessons.
• In-built Learning Management System (KP-Learner Manager™) can be run online (in IIS web servers), and data is recorded to a database. KP Learner Manager can also be used to create local courses that can be delivered on CD-ROM.
• Video and audio bandwidth can be tailored to specific audiences (i.e. modem, broadband)
• Flexible object preloading options mean that no matter what bandwidth a customer has, delivery is always smooth, with no stops and starts. Either use global options such as fully preload, load on demand, preload to certain point - or override with settings for individual images.
• Loading status displayed as a percentage, so user always aware how much preloading is required. Graphical loading indicators are also available.
• Automatic or manual optimization wizards allow you to ensure ideal compression for all images.
• Additional compression for all text, buttons, images, and shapes now available - can knock lesson size in half
• Spatial compression reduces redundant information in images - reducing images to as little as 10% of their original compressed size.
• Flexible color compression options can reduce file sizes even further.
• Export to EXE, Microsoft Compiled Help, animated gif, series of bitmaps, Standard Web Pages, Microsoft Word Documents, PowerPoint Presentations, Windows Vista Gadget, Pocket PC format, or an image, plus others.
• Export for use on portable devices, in WMV Video, Flash Animations, FLV Video, and more.
• Optionally include facility to print entire presentation, current screen (with no additional download), or handouts.
• Run in IFRAMES, LAYERS or in own window.
• Use the following variables in text objects:
  • Lesson Title
  • User Name
  • User ID
  • Percentage of Lesson Viewed
  • Current Score
  • Current Score as Percentage
  • Current Possible Score
  • Current Step
  • Total Steps
  • Current Questions (for quizzes)
  • Total Questions (for quizzes)
  • Questions Attempted (for quizzes)
  • Summary of Results
  • Summary of Results (concise)
  • Copyright
  • Estimated Time
  • Objectives
  • Outline
  • Product
  • Hint
  • Message
  • Picture
  • Current Indexed Step
  • Total Indexed Steps
  • Current Indexed Step as Percentage
  • Current Lesson Status
  • Time Elapsed for Current Step
  • Total Time Elapsed Dynamic
  • Total Time Elapsed Fixed
  • Total Time Remaining
  • Timeout Time Remaining
  • Current Date
  • Current Day
  • Current Month
  • Current Year
  • Current Time
  • Current Dynamic Time
  • Days Till
  • Days Since
  • Days Till Next Occurrence
  • Days Since Previous Occurrence
  • Browser Name
  • Browser Version
  • Browser Platform
  • Browser Agent
• Include comments only visible in design environment
• Display selected text based on the following conditions:
  • If the user is running Internet Explorer
  • If the user is running Internet Explorer v6 or higher
  • If the user is running Internet Explorer v6 or lower
  • If the user is running Netscape Navigator
  • If the user is running Netscape Navigator v6 or higher
  • If the user is running on a Macintosh
  • If the user has/has not Windows Media Player 7 or higher installed
  • If the user has/has not Flash MX plugin installed
  • If the user has/has not Apple QuickTime plugin installed
  • If the lesson is/is not connected to a Learning Management System via SCORM

IPhone/ITouch Specific Features

A number of improvements and additions have been made to KnowledgePresenter X to make content created for, or just played on IPhone and ITouch devices better. These include:

• IPhone/ITouch Developer Guide. This guide is now available in the White Papers section of KnowledgePresenter University.
• Animation On/Off. You can turn animations on or off for IPhone/ITouch playback.
• Movement On/Off. You can turn movement on or off for IPhone/ITouch playback.
• Canvas Size. A new default canvas size is available to create perfectly sized IPhone/ITouch lessons.
• Default Size. You can set a default scale for content to appear when played back on IPhone/ITouch.
• Prevent Scaling. You can prevent a user from scaling content when played back on an IPhone/ITouch.
• Page Icon. You can set a page icon that will be added to the user’s home screen should they decide to bookmark your lesson.
• Glossary Entries. Glossary entries, that normally require a mouseover movement (which is not supported on the IPhone/ITouch devices) will be activated by a mousedown.
• KP Learner Manager Improvements. KP Learner Manager now uses the Viewport tag for better sized playback on IPhone/ITouch devices.
• Message Boxes. A special message box is used, one designed for IPOD playback, when the standard IPOD canvas size is used.

Reporting, Recording and Certification

• SCORM 1.2 compliant (see SCORM documents). Works with third party SCORM compliant Learning Management Systems
• Have results from any lesson emailed to you
• Allow users to print or open results
• Display results in a variety of formats on screen
• Generate Certificates from any lesson, or from our LMS
• KnowledgePresenter X includes the KP Learner Manager Standard Edition Learning Management System,
• Create Your Own Certificates directly in KnowledgePresenter for use with KP Learner Manager, or from within individual lessons.
• Branch lessons based on user interaction, results or scores
• Create Objective with human understandable names, values, and more

Rapid Development

• Optimized screen capture process streamlines capturing software screens.
• For software simulations or demonstrations, optimized for series of full screen shot images. No pre-editing or chopping of images required, no separate creating of mouseover or mousedown images.
• Wizards available to automatically create presentations or lessons.
• Automatic detection of mouseover and mousedown images.
• Streamlined creating and positioning of objects such as arrows and text boxes.
• Direct import of existing assets in almost any web or Microsoft Office friendly format. No conversions required.
• Guides, grids, markers and timelines streamline object placement and synchronization.
• Record audio and video directly.
• Create Library Objects that can be saved to and loaded from disk at a later stage. These library objects may correspond to one or multiple KnowledgePresenter® X objects. Each Library Object has a built-in preview.
• Opne multiple copies of KnowledgePresenter, and copy and paste content between open lessons.
• Categorize objects into groups - groups that can hidden or shown as required. Allows you to create one lesson with multiple scenarios, or very interesting interactions.
• Lock groups so that multiple objects can be manipulated as one.
• Use events that hide or show objects in certain groups - modally (only that group can be interacted with), or non-modally
• Convert any supported media format to FLV (Flash Video format) without leaving KnowledgePresenter® X Professional.
• Preview presentations in browser or directly in KnowledgePresenter® X Professional.
• Zip and email source or exported presentations with one command.
• Add user specific notes.
• Use placeholders for rapid image placement.
• Create your own templates, complete with preview
• Check spelling using Microsoft Word spell checker without leaving KnowledgePresenter® X Professional (requires Microsoft Word), or using the built-in spell checker. Includes check spelling as you type feature.
• Thesaurus included
• Powerful search and replace feature.
• Search for objects of a particular type or property
• Locate objects that use a certain style
• View a historical list of all exported lessons, with a preview.
  • Launch the source file associated with any exported lesson (if available).
  • Launch the exported lesson in a browser.
  • Convert the exported lesson to an exe file.
  • Open the folder containing the exported files in Windows Explorer.
  • Upload to the KnowledgePresenter website for preview
• Open Dialog Box
  • Revolutionary new open dialog box is shared when opening or importing files of all types.
  • Allows you to display thumbnails in a variety of sizes.
  • Optionally preview Word, PowerPoint, Movie, Image, Template, Library Object, KnowledgePresenter files and others as thumbnails.
  • Save thumbnails to disk or regenerate them each time.
  • Preview objects at full size, or open in associated program.
  • Delete objects
  • Add to Objects to favorites with one click
  • New File/Folder tree makes locating files easier.
  • Instantly move to recently used folders.
  • Load recently loaded or favorite objects of the current type.
  • Print the Thumbnails at custom sizes.
  • Rotate JPEG images (lossless)

Auto Navigation

• Auto Navigation allows automatic navigation controls and other elements to be added to a lesson. Has the following advantages:
  • Saves the developer having to create navigation items.
  • Allows larger lessons to be run on smaller screens, as the navigation buttons will always be visible, and only the content will scroll.
  • Provides consistency between lessons.
  • Automatically determines when and if navigation buttons like back, forwards, etc should be enabled or disabled.
  • Allows the automatic generation of indexes and thumbnail indexes, which can scroll automatically.
  • User can add objects to any step in KnowledgePresenter to disable (or set a timer on) back, forwards, or other navigation events.
• Options when using Auto Navigation include:
  • Choose from a series of styles
  • Manually edit style sheets to changes colors and appearance
  • Edit frame widths and button heights
  • Use no thumbnails, thumbnails for all steps, or thumbnails for steps with indexed items on them
  • Add a 'More Info' link.
  • Add an 'Attachment' link.
  • Add an index for indexed items.
  • Optionally number index.
  • Add a Print button.
  • Add an Email button.
  • Determine whether a Back button is allowed.
  • Add a Restart button.
  • Add a Comments button.
  • Add a View Score button.
  • Add a Print Score button.
  • Use Wide Screen Navigation.
  • New - add your own custom buttons to the Auto Navigation play bar.

Temporary Uploads

• Upload your lesson directly from KP to the KnowledgePresenter server. This will remain there for 30 days before being removed. This allows you to upload content, and allow other people to check the content, without having to have or configure a server. You can send an email invitation to other users directly after uploading.

Language Options and Customization

• You can now create or select a new language used to display messages, and results in a KP created lesson. This includes things like messages when certain plugins are not found, or phrases and words such as Objective, Status, Correct, Wrong, etc. Allows a lesson to be run entirely in a language other than English if required (language must use English character set - such as French, German, Dutch, Spanish, etc).
• A language editor is included to allow you to create or edit your own language sets.

Online Clipart

• Users can access online clipart direct from the Open dialog box. This connects to the KnowledgePresenter site, displays a list of available categories, displays image thumbnails, and allows user to load them direct from the website. No browser required. Once a file from the website is downloaded, it is stored locally for future reference, so no need to visit the website again.
• Clipart is available in a range of categories, with a total number (although this includes a lot of new backgrounds and borders) in the tens of thousands.
  • Range of new images now available in KPX.
  • Perform custom searched for any content.
  • View online catalogs of all available clipart.
  • Alpha Images (Animals, Food, Health, Kitchen, Miscellaneous, Nature, Office, Rocks and Stones, Signs, Sport, Technology, Tools. Available in shadowed and painted effect options)
  • Animations (a series of high quality animated GIFs in various sizes)
  • Arrows (8 directions, large, small and medium, alpha transparent, hundreds of textured selections. Available in 3D and shadowed options)
  • Background and Textures (effects such as Circles Large, Circles Small, Dreamy, Dreamy Smudged, Noise, Original, Smudged, Squared, Squares Large, Squares Small, Stars Large, Stars Small, Sunburst, Water)
  • Borders (Fancy, Standard, Standard with Nails, Wavy. Available in Thin, Medium, and Thick Variations. Alpha Transparent)
  • Callouts (available in standard and shadowed effect. Alpha Transparent)
  • Flags (Standard, Waving, On Pole, 3D, Shadowed varieties available. Alpha Transparent)
  • Flowchart (Available in Blue, White, Yellow, optionally with shadowed effect. Alpha Transparent)
  • Headers (Fisheye, Nailed, and Standard. Sunburst effect available in all varieties. Alpha Transparent)
  • Photos (Boats, Clouds, Fauna, Fire, Fireworks, Flora, Nails, Rocks and Stones, Shells, Sunsets, Textures, Views)
  • True/False and Buttons (Alpha Images, Arrows, Crosses, Crosses Fat, Ellipses, Flags, Flags With Poles, Stars, Stars 32 sides, Ticks, Triangles, Triangles Left. Available in large, medium and small, with 3D and shadowed effects. Alpha Transparent)
  • Over 400 custom cursors also provided with KP.

KP Blackboard

• A totally new feature, designed to allow users to create a lesson exactly like they were drawing on a blackboard. Can be saved with audio (if saving as Flash), or just as an Animated GIF file.

Group Development

• Favorites
  • Any object from any open dialog box can be added to a list of favorites.
  • This favorites list can be local or global for all developers (if global, objects are copied to a group folder for access by all developers)
  • You can set a master favorites folder so that all developers can share the favorites.
  • Add object(s) to favorites with one click from toolbar icon.
  • Favorites button added to main toolbar to show/hide Favorites Panel.
  • Favorites Panel is now an option for the right hand side of the screen. Using this panel, you can:
    • Display a list of favorites (in different categories - for example, movies, images, templates, library objects, etc.), complete with an icon.
    • Quickly change favorites category from a menu.
    • Add objects to favorites from this panel.
    • See a historical list and preview of all recently loaded objects of each type.
    • Load or open objects with two clicks.
    • Remove objects from favorites, or clear favorites lists.
• Create Library Objects that can be saved to and loaded from disk at a later stage, and shared with other developers. These library objects may correspond to one or multiple KnowledgePresenter® X objects. Each Library Object has a built-in preview.
• Create and share your own templates, complete with preview
• Create and share master folders for default save, export, and favorites locations

Screen Capture

• Capture a sequence of single screens, and import them into KnowledgePresenter® X Professional with mousedown and mouseover screens automatically identified (using KP-Capture™).
• Capture full screen, any window, or any selected area.
• Optionally capture and edit mouse cursors
• Capture screen movies (using KP-Simulator™), edit them, and save them as Flash, an animated GIF, or Windows Media File, or FLV (Flash Video) - ready to import into KnowledgePresenter® X Professional or play standalone.
• See KP-Capture™ Feature List for more details on screen capture.
• See KP-Simulator™ Feature List for more details on screen movie capture.

Creating the Training Environment

• Completed lessons can be compiled into the built-in Learning Management System (KP-Learner Manager™), for the delivery of a complete managed learning environment.
• Learning Management System included can be run online (in IIS web servers), and offline from CD-ROM.
• Special tools for importing, use and compression of screenshot images.
• Automatic detection and removal of redundant image information in a series of screenshots, resulting in much smaller downloads.
• Automatic detection and assigning of mouseover and mousedown images.
• Automatic creation of hotspot areas and events.
• Communicate with SCORM compliant Learning Management Systems.
• All learning lessons are self-contained, and can be moved from one Learning Management System to another seamlessly.
• Keep scores.
• Track user errors. Determine how many clicks before an incorrect response is assumed. Determine action to take or message to display should the user make an error. Limit the amount of attempts a user can make on a question.
• Provide hints.
• Group interactions together to form an objective.
• Customize text based on whether user is connected to a Learning Management System.
• Create pretest and post test learning lessons.
• Create random question, multiple choice quizzes in next to no time. Organize questions into groups, or ask subsets that change each time the quiz is run.
• Create random steps in any lesson.
• Include printing ability (current screen, entire lesson, handouts, results, certificate).
• Generate PDF documents directly from KP, and effortlessly link them to KP lessons.
• Customize and add any directional arrows with one keyboard click.
• Make any object(s) visible when the user moves the mouse over another object.
• Check for user mousedowns, keyboard presses, text entry, mouseups, double-clicks, and object drags.
• Include multiple event types for the one event - allows users to use the mouse, keyboard, menu command, toolbar button - whatever you like.
• Create simple or complex tables with the inbuilt table editor. Include graphics in any cell.
• Quickly include any shortcut key for any event, or apply globally.
• Apply time limits to events
• Display detailed scoring details, or a summary, or whatever parts you wish
• Display current score, current possible score, total score, or a complete summary of objectives and results on screen in the lesson.
• Display custom screens, more information, links and messages based on user performance in a test.
• Create direct links to Google Earth using longtitude, latitude and elevation.
• Paste YouTube links in directly.
• Add Cookie support to track lesson position (bookmarking) if a lesson is not run from a Learning Management System.

Multiple Choice Quizzes

• Create and edit multiple choice quiz questions with inbuilt multiple choice quiz editor, with up to 999 questions per quiz
• Randomize questions.
• Set that only a dynamic random subset of total questions be used in any one quiz.
• Create custom feedback for specific questions - even specific answers, or global feedback for wrong or right answers.
• Individually time limit questions
• Put questions into groups, and determine how many questions from each group are used in the quiz
• Score weighting allows you to set different scores for different possible answers
• Include an image with each question
• Include audio with each question
• Include images in feedback
• Allow single, multiple, or true/false correct answers
• Provide full on-screen summary of quiz results.
• Allows one or two step submitting of answers.
• Optionally allow users to skip questions, and answer skipped questions at the end.
• Set passing score for SCORM reporting.
• Create hard copy versions of quizzes.

SCORM Implementation

• SCORM is implemented automatically - no need to know any SCORM technical details.
• Sends lessons scores, total score, total time to SCORM compliant LMS.
• Use user name and user id as variables in lessons.
• Tracks each objective in training environments, including objective name, id, time, latency, result, student response, weighting, type, user feedback, restart information, and correct response. These are sent to LMS using strict SCORM standards.
• Include text that is only visible if connected to a LMS via SCORM.
• Create IMS Manifest Files.
• Create Package Interchange Files.
• Supports Bookmarking for non-tests, and limited bookmarking for tests.

Learning Management System (KP-Learner Manager™ (standard edition)).

• Create your own course to run in KP-Learner Manager™ (standard edition) using the course creator
• Structure courses into groups
• Generate certificates
• Import third party courseware (where supported)
• Add Help Files and Surveys
• KP-Learner Manager™ (standard edition) plays in any supported browser directly - no extra plugins or software required
• Course displays in fully collapsible and expandable menu system
• Full administrator functions, including add, edit and delete users, view scores, edit user information, sort users into departments, create and edit multiple administrators with full access, or restricted to certain departments
• Individual lessons in a course can have time limits associated with them
• Individual lessons can have comments associated with them
• Individual lessons can be restricted so that they only can be attempted a set number of times
• Individual lessons can be set only to be available when one or more other lessons have been completed or passed
• Records, times, dates, scores, status, total time in course, times lessons attempted, individual objectives within each lesson or quiz
• Create entire courses that can be run from CD-ROM and have results recorded.
• Enterprise edition of KP-Learner Manager available separately (contains more features)

Security

• Disallow use of the browser context menu for exported lessons
• Protect any exported lessons using domain name security
• Password protect any exported lessons
• Optionally only allow lesson to be loaded in launched from your Learning Management System
• Set lessons to expire at a given date.

Accessibility

• Create presentations that will 'zoom' to the browser size.
• Choose your own colors and styles.
• Incorporate audio/video with optional annotation.
• Compatible with browser based screen reading software.
• Include ability for user to increase or decrease font size.
• Alternate text (tooltips) available for all images.
• All interactive material can be made available as printable material.
• Global keyboard shortcuts available to navigate through a presentation or training lesson.
• Each event you create can have an alternate keyboard shortcut associated with it.
• Playback available on wide range of platforms and formats.
• Preview lessons as they may be viewed by a red/green colorblind person.
• Preview lessons as they may be viewed on grayscale devices, or when printed out.
• Set Read Aloud text - have KP convert selected text objects to computer generated audio automatically. These can be created with audio playbars, or simply to play when a user moves the mouse over an object.
• New accessibility features allow automatic creation of alternate text, tooltips, and computer generated audio.
• Manually create audio to annotate any object

Styles

• You can create, manage and edit styles for the following types of objects:
  • Text Objects
  • Buttons
  • Internally Created Graphics

Fast Previews

• Preview entire lesson
• Preview current step
• Preview from current step
• Quick Preview available

Good Looks

• Apply Internet Explorer transitions. Also work when exporting as a movie.
• Apply Internet Explorer filters.
• Apply a range of image effects to any object.
• Use text anti-aliasing in buttons and text objects
• New 24-bit color palette used for canvas for much better color results
• Apply drop caps to text.
• Use provided templates.
• Apply drop shadows to any object.
• Rotate, shear and resample objects.
• Create custom loading and startup screens.
• Apply dynamic movement to objects.
• Apply dynamic size changes to objects.
• Apply custom mouse cursors for objects. Over 400 custom cursors now provided for supported browsers.
• Apply animations (zoom, letter by letter, paragraph by paragraph) to most objects
• Apply movement to most objects:
  • From Top Left of Screen
  • From Bottom Left of Screen
  • From Top Right of Screen
  • From Bottom Right of Screen
  • From Left of Screen Off Right
  • From Right of Screen Off Left
  • From Top of Screen Off Bottom
  • From Bottom of Screen Off Top
• Additionally, timing for these movements now includes:
  • Fast
  • Medium
  • Slow
  • Really Slow
  • Really, Really Slow
• Apply appearance and disappearance delays for objects
• Apply textures to most objects
• Apply rotation to most objects
• Apply transparency to most objects
• Apply and customize animations to most objects:
  • Checkerboard Reveal
  • Emboss
  • Mosaic Zoom In
  • Move and Zoom
  • Oilify
  • One Frame Emboss
  • Rotate Once
  • Rotate Once and Zoom
  • Shear Horizontal
  • Shear Vertical
  • Slide In From Bottom
  • Slide in From Left
  • Slide in From Right
  • Slide in From Top
  • Slide in From Top Left
  • Stretch From Center
  • Stretch From Middle
  • Wipe Down
  • Wipe From Bottom Left
  • Wipe From Bottom Right
  • Wipe From Center
  • Wipe From Center Middle
  • Wipe From Middle
  • Wipe From Top Left
  • Wipe From Top Right
  • Wipe Left
  • Wipe Right
  • Wipe Up
  • Zoom
  • Zoom In
• In addition, you can set, for each animation:
  • Timing
  • Frames Per Second
  • Colors
  • Background Color (or Transparent)
  • Dithering
  • Wipe Previous Frame Animation Method
• Set On/Off Animation. Set an image to flash on and off a given number of times, with a given delay, and determine whether it is finally visible. Works with movement, and animation options, so can provide many more effects than just a simple 'flashing' of an object.

Getting Started

• Complete online university, available at KP University
• Detailed online help
• Evaluation Guides
• White Papers
• Support Forum
• Complete PDF versions of all interactive tutorials
• A series of provided sample presentations so you can see how presentations are put together.
• A variety of templates, each complete with a preview, and categorized into groups, provided to allow quick development of presentations.

Multimedia

• Import and synchronize to multimedia in WAV, AVI, MP3, MPG, ASF, WMV, 3GP, and WMA formats (note that the use of some formats, like MP3, may require licensing from the appropriate copyright holders).
• Import Flash (SWF and FLV), QuickTime, RealPlayer, Shockwave, YouTube and Windows Media video or audio as embedded multimedia.
• Automatically have the lesson or presentation move to the next step when the audio and some video on the current step has completed playing.
• Convert any supported format to Flash movie format (FLV).
• Generate audio files automatically from text.
• Supports Windows Media Server if available.
• Capture video directly.
• Record audio directly.
• Load and play MP3^* (note that the use of some formats, like MP3, may require licensing from the appropriate copyright holders) and WAV files.
• Select playbar appearance for audio - from one of nearly 30 styles. Determine whether features such as mute and volume are included on the playbar. Can be changed at any time.
• Assign images to audio files so that they play like mini movies.
• Assign or record sounds for mouseup, mousedown, mouseover, and doubleclick events.
• Synchronize other elements with video and audio.
• Apply sound effects to objects.
• Apply Read Alouds to individual objects or globally to create a better user experience, or simply for more, or clearer, information or explanations.
• Specific support for Windows Media Player version 7 and above.
• Edit Windows Media Player appearance. Show or hide controls, status bars, indicators, and more.
• Hide or show MediaPlayer on the canvas.
• Capture images from existing video clips.
• Assign events to any object to increase or decrease volume.
• Assign events to any object to mute sound.
• Assign events to any object to play or pause multimedia.
• Preview synchronized multimedia in KnowledgePresenter® X Professional.
• Display text based on whether user has/has not the appropriate plugin installed (Flash, QuickTime, Windows Media)
• A plugin check is automatically included for lessons that incorporate a Flash, QuickTime or Windows Media object)
• Export entire presentation as video - in Flash Video (FLV) or Flash Animation (SWF), and Windows Media (WMV).
• Import FLV movies, and select an interface and playbar from a range of nearly 30 options. Determine whether a mute control, and/or volume control appears on the playbar. Can be changed at any time.

Interactivity

• Check for mousedowns, mouseups, keypresses, mouseovers, double-clicks and drags, including combination checking for Shift, Ctrl, Alt or Shift and Ctrl keys.
• Check for users entering specific (freeform or forced) strings.
• Actions for specific events include:
  • Moving to any point in the presentation
  • Checking answers
  • Closing the window (without or without confirmation)
  • Blocking events
  • Decrease / Increase Font Size
  • Display Messages
  • Show or Hide Groups
  • Show Menus
  • Move back or forwards to previous or next objective
  • Move to a specific object
  • Move to specific points in lesson based on user score to provide custom feedback
  • Launch a URL in current or new window (with customizable window size and properties)
  • Play lesson to end, ignoring steps
  • Print current screen, entire lesson
  • Print handout
  • Print user results
  • Submit Quiz Answer
  • Skip Quiz Question
  • Start or restart lesson
  • Play current step
  • Send email (set recipient and subject)
  • Show Hint
  • Skip objective
  • Watch current step again
  • Email Results
  • Generate Certificates
  • Send Results to LMS
  • Check Questions
• Optionally check for user errors (clicking in the wrong spot, pressing the wrong key, etc.)
• Set maximum amount of attempts for any question.
• Each event can have a 'hint' associated with it (for pretest or post testing).
• Include multiple event types for the one event - allows users to use the mouse, keyboard, menu command, toolbar button - whatever you like.
• Quickly include any shortcut key for any event, or apply globally.
• Include as many events or interactions in the one 'objective' as you wish.
• Create Timeouts to give people a limited time to complete tasks

Create and Edit Objects

• Import images (bmp, gif, png, jpeg, ico, cur, pcx, tif, tga, wmf).
• Obtain images from files, scanners, digital cameras, the clipboard, and extract from video files.
• Drag and drop images from the Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer.
• Use web pages, XPS, PDF documents (anything that can be displayed in a browser), as an object.
• Import documents (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, text files, Macromedia Flash objects).
• New feature allows you to import PowerPoint presentations, a series of images, or even Word documents as slide shows, with automatic navigation, thumbnails, and much more.
• Multiple file import wizards build presentation for you.
• Create text or instruction text.
• Antialias, rotate, apply gradients to text.
• All sorts of vector based shapes and lines, including Diamond, Ellipse, Hexagon, Octagon, Pentagon, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Lines, Stars, Triangles, Crosses, Parallelogram, and Trapezoids.
• Create freehand lines
• Create rotatable arrows
• Vector and bitmap arrows.
• Apply borders, fills and gradients.
• Apply Textures
• Custom button creator (up, down and mouseover states), totally customizable and editable buttons, with text and/or images.
• Create placeholders.
• Set size, position, layer, time on and time off (the timeline) information.
• Apply effects such as Brightness/Contrast, Color Density, Equalize, Faded Edges, Gamma, Grayscale, Histogram, Hue, Negative, Saturation, Stretch Intensity, Add Noise, Average, Blur, Emboss, Median, Mosaic, Motion Blur, Oilify, Painted, Pointillize, Posterize, Sharpen, Solarize, Spatial Filter, Resample, Flip Vertical, Flip Horizontal, Free Rotate, Shear and Drop Shadow.
• Export individual images.
• Optimize individual images with optimization wizards.
• Set mouseover and mousedown images.
• Apply events.
• Apply Display Transitions.
• Create or apply CSS classes.
• Lock objects.
• Replace objects.
• Turn any object into a button.
• Copy formatting from one object to another
• Resize canvas and have all objects automatically resize to match
• Set alternate text and alias.
• Copy to and from clipboard.
• Edit images inline in Paintbrush and have them update automatically.
• Edit images inline in any other application and update them automatically.
• Edit created or imported audio from KP in any external audio editor.

Glossaries

• Create glossary files, with keywords and descriptions.
• Apply glossary items to text in text objects.
• Apply glossary items to individual obejcts.
• Include formatting and images in glossary popups.
• Determine the formatting and maximum width for all popups descriptions.
• Glossary popups automatically size to match description displayed.

Tools

• Create indexes.
• Export to and from Word documents.
• Export to and from PowerPoint.
• Link presentations together.
• Table editor.
• Load one presentation from another.
• Print all or selected objects, or the canvas itself.
• Print thumbnails - 1, 2 or 4 to a page. Print every pause, step, marker, or selected time increments. Choose which pages to print.
• Export canvas as image.
• Create and edit metadata information.
• Jigsaw Maker
• PDF Generator

Timeline

• Set timeline duration
• Set default timeline grid interval
• Add pauses and markers to timeline
• Two different timelines available
• Move objects around the timeline via mouse, shortcut keys, or to 1/100 of a second accuracy with dialog box.
• Zoom in and out and pan the timeline.
• Insert blank space into timeline.
• Move multiple or single objects around timeline.
• Optionally snap objects to default interval, pauses or markers in timeline for accurate placement.

Canvas

• Now in 24 bit color for higher results.
• Canvas markers (which can be 'snapped' to, and locked).
• Customizable Canvas Grid (which can be 'snapped' to).
• Set canvas size, color and background image.
• Set canvas border, border color, contrast, hue, and intensity.
• Preview transitions on the canvas.
• View canvas in draft view for quick redraws.
• Drag and drop objects and multimedia on canvas.
• Zoom in and pan facilities.

^*KnowledgePresenter is not provided with any MP3 encoding or decoding capability, so to use this implentation may require an MP3 codec installed on your machine. Note that the use of MP3 in any software may require a license with the appropriate copyright holders. See www.mp3licensing.com for more details.